"I'll go bring them up." Wei Yunlan hurried downstairs with Suihe, Dong Da and others.
When they got closer, they noticed that Nanny Wang and the other two were all injured.
Liu Quan's left arm was drooping, with a large blood stain on his sleeve. Gui Xiang had a pigeon egg-sized wound on her forehead, and she lay on the car with her eyes closed, and it was unknown what happened to her.
The one who looked slightly better among the three was Nanny Wang, but even she had scratches on her cheeks and the backs of her hands, and her clothes were torn in several places. One can imagine how pessimistic her experiences in the past few days were.
Liu Quan was the first to notice the people coming towards them. He first saw Dong Da and Sui He, then his eyes shifted to the frail young man dressed in men's clothing walking between them, "Miss?"
There were many people at the city gate, so Wei Yunlan lowered his voice and said, "Follow me first."
Dong Da stepped forward and held the mule.
As the mule cart turned a corner, Wei Yunlan noticed that there was an inconspicuous man in black following behind the cart. His attire was not much different from that of Yu Qi, Pei Hu and the others, except that there was an unsightly tear on the hem of his clothes.
Seeing Wei Yunlan looking at him, the man nodded slightly.
Wei Yunlan understood that this was the person arranged by Yu Qi to follow Mingxuan and the others.
Even the guards of Tianshu Pavilion failed to keep an eye on Mingxuan? Wei Yunlan's heart sank.
Avoiding the mixed crowd at the city gate, they entered the inn. Nanny Wang's expression was still a little numb. Guixiang lay on Suihe's back and only opened her eyes briefly when she was moved.
Liu Quan explained: "Guixiang was drugged two days ago, and then she hit her head. She slept more than she was awake these two days."
The sound of his voice was obviously much weaker than usual. Wei Yunlan glanced at him and noticed that the blood on his sleeves had seeped out a little more.
"Suihe, send Guixiang to the next room to lie down first. Tingxue, go get a doctor."
The east side of the third floor of the inn had been completely booked by Wei Yunlan, and the rest of the people went into the big house where the Wei family had just talked.
"Dong Da, please help Uncle Liu apply some bleeding medicine first."
Looking at the people in the room whom she hadn't seen for just three or four days, Nanny Wang's dazed expression finally cleared up a little.
Then he knelt down in front of Wei Maolin and Gao.
"Master, Madam, Miss..."
"I'm sorry for you!"
"Get up and talk." Gao wanted to help Nanny Wang up from the ground, but Nanny Wang knelt there and refused to get up.
Wei Yunlan took a deep breath and finally asked what she had been holding back all the way, "Uncle Liu, Nanny Wang, what on earth happened to you all along the way?"
Nanny Wang's lips trembled and her eyes were red.
Steward Wang was watching anxiously, "Old lady, the young lady asked you a question, please answer it quickly! Young Master Mingxuan and our son, why didn't they come back with us?"
"Master Mingxuan has been separated from us." Nanny Wang knelt on the ground, her eyes full of self-blame and she said, "If Master Mingxuan had not seen that I was not in good condition and had given me the mule cart, we would not have been separated by the crowd..."
It turned out that after the five of them escaped from the village that day, they found that Guixiang had been drugged by the villager. It was estimated that the drug was added to the tea brought into the house at night. Nanny Wang was afraid of the trouble of getting up at night and did not drink it, but Guixiang drank two cups under the watchful eyes of the family's youngest daughter.
So when Wang Gui and Wei Mingxuan rushed into the room, Nanny Wang suddenly woke up, but Guixiang was still in a daze and didn't open her eyes until noon the next day.
It was also their bad luck. They thought they had escaped from the village and would not encounter any danger if they were careful on the road. However, they did not expect to run into a group of refugees just as they were about to enter Suizhou.
Those refugees must have escaped from the same village or clan and were extremely united. When they saw that there were only five of them but they had mule carts and food, they wanted to rob them.
"Mingxuan, Wanggui and you were separated by that group of refugees?"
"No!" Liu Quan was just being held down by Dong Da at this time, and he finished applying medicine with a grin, "Miss, with the help of the three heroes you hired, the refugees couldn't steal our things at all. It was just that a few of us were injured during the struggle. We were separated later. When the refugees saw that they couldn't steal anything and were about to give up, a group of people suddenly rushed out and started kidnapping people without any reason. Almost all the men among the refugees were kidnapped."
"We saw that the situation was not going well, so we quickly mixed in with the refugees and ran away. I pulled the mule, Mammy and Guixiang sat on the cart, and Master Mingxuan and Wang Gui followed the cart. At first, we were all together, but when we turned around, Master Mingxuan and Wang Gui were gone."
"Later we went back to look for him, but the kidnappers had already left on horseback, leaving only a group of refugees, including the elderly, children, women and children. We searched for half a day but had no clue, so we decided to rush to Suijiang to report the matter to the master and his wife. Two of the heroes hired by the eldest lady stayed there to look for the whereabouts of the young master."
Liu Quan finished explaining everything in one breath. Regardless of his injuries, he walked over to Nanny Wang and knelt down together. "It's all our fault for not taking good care of Master Mingxuan."
"Get up, this is not your fault." Wei Yunlan sighed. Just by looking at Liu Quan's injuries, he knew that he must have tried his best at that time.
But no one expected that in addition to the refugees, there would also be a group of kidnappers.
All those abducted were male refugees. What was they trying to do?
Wei Yunlan remained calm on the surface, but he was actually devastated.
She had clearly changed the trajectory of her exile in her previous life, so why did Mingxuan get lost?
Why Mingxuan?
Is it possible that despite all her efforts, she still cannot fight against fate?
The fingertips poked into the palm of his hand, and the slight tingling sensation made Wei Yunlan's eyes regain some clarity.
She could never compromise with fate like this.
At least they have more initiative in this life. Even if Mingxuan gets lost, the whole family has now left the exile team and is less restricted. They can go and find Mingxuan again!
"Uncle Liu, can you tell me more about what that group of people looked like?"
"Let me tell you." The guard who had been standing silently beside Yu Qi after entering the room came out.
"That group of people are obviously well-trained and skilled, but they don't have much banditry. They look like military errands or private soldiers kept by some powerful people."
Wei Yunlan frowned slightly. This area was too large to even begin to search. "Are there any other features? For example, what the group was wearing, their horses, or the weapons they were carrying?"
The guard frowned and thought for a moment, "I remember that among the two leading men, one had auspicious clouds embroidered on his boots. Among the dozens of people in that team, four or five others had the same pattern on their boots." If he hadn't been from the Feather Department of Tianshu Pavilion, he would not have noticed such details at all.
"Can you draw it?" Wei Yunlan asked Ningshuang to bring paper and pen.
The guard was not good at painting, and after painting for a long time, he could barely restore the picture he saw at that time.
The more Wei Yunlan looked at it, the more familiar it looked. Suddenly, he remembered something and made two changes on the paper. "Is that right?"
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